Angela Rayner has dismissed the claim the Equality and Human Rights Commission is a "failed experiment", contradicting a senior Labour member who attacked the watchdog after it was announced it would investigate the party's antisemitism crisis.
Labour shadow education secretary was responding to Huda Elmi, a member of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee (NEC), who tweeted on Wednesday that the EHRC should be abolished, adding that if it ceased to exist, "most of the people it was created to support wouldn't even notice".
This was after the EHRC had announced it would probe dossiers submitted by the Jewish Labour Movement and the Campaign Against Antisemitism, detailing Jew-hate among its members.
